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Application Links – the newest Jira citizen
Since 4.3 Iteration 2 the Jira Engine Room Team has started on integrating the new Application Links functionality with Jira. Any plugin developer who is building a feature that involves Jira talking to another Atlassian application or a 3rd party system should check out application links! Application links address several problems that in the past […]
Jira 4.3 Milestone 2 – LDAP, plugins, links and more
Jira 4.3 EAP 1 is so old news.. we have already released 4.3 Early Access Preview (EAP) 2 and it just keeps getting better. Get users from LDAP and Crowd With EAP 2, we continue to evolve the direct connection to LDAP feature we introduced in the first EAP. In addition to LDAP improvements, EAP […]
Six Tools to Enhance Your Wiki Experience
The AtlasCamp Game turned out to be a major success and provided a lot of helpful momentum for the conference and beyond. The Game is a great example of Confluence’s ability to be used as a collaboration tool – connecting people around shared knowledge. The features and plugins highlighted above are only a snapshot of the plethora of tools that can be used to make Confluence a powerful content creation and collaboration tool.
Jira’s Bugzilla Importer Updated and Improved
Updated: Check out the Top 5 Reasons to GO Jira! If there’s one lesson we’ve learned from our ShipIt Days, in which developers have 24 hours to build and deliver a working software prototype, it’s that small teams and isolation can produce awesome results. With that idea in mind, two of our developers shut themselves in […]
The A-Team’s first feature iteration for Jira 4.3
At the team leads offsite we held recently, we discussed a new strategy to gather feedback from customers about features faster. I had the perfect feature on my roadmap – Configurable View Issue. In Jira 4.1 we made some drastic changes to the view issue screen to provide a more streamlined and faster user experience […]
Crucible – code review audit trail
“Didn’t anyone look at this code?” You’ll do better if you have someone look over your work. That’s what I tell my daughter when she’s doing homework. It works two ways: first, she’s more careful in the first place since she knows it’s going to be reviewed, and second it actually can reveal simple errors […]
What a fantastic Doc Sprint!
Early last month, Atlassian held their second Doc Sprint event and what a fantastic event it was! While our first Doc Sprint focussed on developing tutorials for third-party developers of Atlassian’s software, our second event focussed on ‘Quick Start’ and ‘How to’ guides for users and administrators of our software. We held this Doc Sprint […]
Video: Jira Extended for Project Management
Today we held a webinar on a tool which extends Jira for Project Management. Onepoint’s Jira Connector extends Jira’s project management capabilities by integrating them into a complete, but still easy-to-use enterprise project management solution. By combining the strengths of Jira’s dynamic agile task management environment with Onepoint’s built-in resource management and project controlling & […]
AtlasCamp 2010: Confluence 4.0 Macro Migration, Plugins 2, and DVCS
In early October Atlassian engineers and plugin developers gathered in Half Moon Bay, California for our anual AtlasCamp get-together. We recently announced the AtlasCamp 2010 videos, and today we’re highlighting three of the talks given at AtlasCamp. Stay tuned for more highlights in the coming weeks. Macro Migration Guide for Confluence 4.0 – Ryan Thomas […]
Technical Communicators Guide to Technical Writing in a Wiki
Over the past few weeks Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team published a series of posts about how you can use a wiki for technical writing. Their posts cover the complete process from authoring your technical documentation, to collaborating and reviewing drafts, publishing online and options for importing and exporting different formats including DITA and XML. Checkout out the posts below and learn how you could use a wiki like Confluence to author, publish, structure and manage your documentation.
Webinar Reminder: Jira Extended for Project Management
Don’t forget, tomorrow we will host a webinar on a tool which extends Jira for Project Management. Onepoint’s Jira Connector extends Jira’s project management capabilities by integrating them into a complete, but still easy-to-use enterprise project management solution. By combining the strengths of Jira’s dynamic agile task management environment with Onepoint’s built-in resource management and […]
Atlassian wins Aussie Exporter of the Year and Deloitte Fast 50
Last month, Atlassian was named a New South Wales Exporter of the Year, and at the ceremonies the other night, Atlassian was named the winner in the Ernst and Young Information and Communication Technology category. The Export Awards celebrated Australia’s best exporters by commending them for their achievements and commitment to success in overseas markets. […]
Crowd 2.1 Arrives in a Blaze of REST, LDAP and C
Crowd 2.1 is out. It’s even chunkier than Crowd 2.0, with almost 230 votes satisfied. There’s a new, comprehensive REST API. If you’re integrating your applications with Crowd, you’ll love it. It makes supporting nested groups simple, and supports far better search capabilities than the SOAP API. The SOAP API won’t be disappearing, but the […]
Joining Atlassian in Sydney
After 7 fantastic years with IBM, I thought it might be time for a little change. So, I have left Chandler’s Ford for Sydney and joined Atlassian.
The Ultimate Wallboard – the Community Fav
Winner: The Community Favourite Wallboard Congratulations to Gert-Jan van de Streek from Avisi for being voted the Community Favourite Wallboard winner in the Ultimate Wallboard contest. Despite entering the contest late, Gert-Jan’s wallboard racked up 305 votes. His wallboard is definitely impressive, boasting a slick design for real-time stats and status across all teams and […]